May 28, 2009

Azi Paybarah is awesome

NY voters chose to impose term limits on our elected officials in not one but two referendums. But then came along Mayor Bloomberg and our entirely useless City Council and decided, voters shmoters, I like being in office! They said it was because we were in such a financial crisis, NY being the epicenter of the banking industry and therefore at the forefront of the economic collapse, that asking voters to look at new possible leaders was just too much for the average New Yorker to bear.

This morning, at a press conference, Mayor Bloomberg said, about the economy that he is “reasonably optimistic we’ve turned a corner.” Azi Paybarah, of the NY Observer tried to ask the completely reasonable question of if, in that case, whether the rationale for extending term limits still existed. Bloomberg did not like that. A must-watch video. Go Azi!